NEW YORK & WYOMISSING, Penn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Penn National Gaming, Inc. (PENN: Nasdaq) announced today that it has reached a community relations agreement with Russell Simmons’ Rush Communications of NYC and a labor framework agreement with the New York Hotel & Motel Trades Council, AFL-CIO in relation to a video lottery terminal gaming facility at New York’s Aqueduct Race Track....
NEW YORK, Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Students from New York City public school PS 165 assisted Procter & Gamble's Bounty brand along with Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation co-founder and entertainment mogul Russell Simmons, hip-hop pioneer Joseph "Rev. Run" Simmons, American fashion designer and humanitarian Tory Burch, and artist Amanda Williams in unveiling the completed Building Bounty-ful...
NEW YORK, Oct. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- This week, Russell Simmons, Dr. Benjamin Chavis, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) and Walmart will convene the national Hip-Hop Summit on Financial Empowerment entitled "Get Your Money Right" in Houston. The event will offer valuable and timely financial information from financial experts, celebrities and community leaders. Free to the public, the...
The undergraduate degree: A bourgeois cult symbol If there's one thing job-hunting in this economy has taught me, it's that an undergraduate education is vastly overrated as far as success goes. Notwithstanding the specious right to go to college for free of which today’s youth and leftist politicians often speak, college does not guarantee success in finding or keeping a job in this economy....
CINCINNATI, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Yesterday in New York City, Procter & Gamble's Bounty brand announced its partnership with Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation by launching the Building Bounty-ful Bridges Program with Russell Simmons and the support of his celebrity friend, Mary J. Blige. On hand to kick off the program were students from PS 165, a school based in the Upper West Side of NY,...
Show & Talk - New York Fashion Week Blog - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Smile with those eyes, honey! Luminaries such as Russell Simmons and Jojo trekked to the Ukrainian Institute of America on the Upper East Side yesterday evening to watch Amber Rose walk in her very first runway show for four-year-old label Celestino. Amber walked in the finale look: a white, strapless wedding dress with a long train. How does she measure up as a model? A few of her colleagues seemed...
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), U.S. Department of Commerce, proudly announces the winners of the Abe Venable Legacy Award for Lifetime Achievement for Minority Enterprise
- YOUR LIFE, YOUR MONEY Premieres 9-9-09 at 9 p.m. on PBS -ARLINGTON, Va., Aug. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With America's recession deepening, young people are in the worst financial trouble in more than a generation: New college graduates face the highest unemployment rate in 25 years, record student loan debt (and record defaults), prohibitively expensive health insurance costs and an average of...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
Name: Russell Simmons Age: 52 Neighborhood: Financial District Occupation: Chairman, Rush Communications Who's your favorite New Yorker, living or dead, real or fictional? It changes daily for me. Today it’s Rev. Al Sharpton. What's the best meal you've eaten in New York? Curry in a Hurry — Daal (lentils), Dahi Kadai (chickpeas), Saag Paneer (no cheese). In one sentence, what do you actually...
Yup here we go again. The continuation of niggas with their fucken hands out trying to push this reparations crap. I’m so fucken sick and tired of these scamming ass clueless Negros who are just determined to fuck it up for the rest of us who decided long ago that white people don’t owe us shit! Niggas who voted for the Magic Negro just knew that once he set his ass in the White House...
We all now know that the 58th edition of Miss Universe 2009 will be taking place in the Bahamas in August. But did you know that before it was decided to be staged in this Caribbean island, the pageant was almost acquired by Dubai, a city in an Arab country - the United Arab Emirates? Why did it not push through? It's because of Israel's Adi Rodnitzki. So what was Adi's participation in this controversy?...
DALLAS, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- International Speakers Bureau (iSB) , a leading global speakers bureau offering unparalleled access to the world's top keynote speakers and acclaimed entertainment personalities, announced today that it has signed an exclusive marketing alliance with Russell Simmons. As part of this alliance, iSB will provide exclusive representation as Mr. Simmons' booking agent in...
America voted, and the opinion is clear... no more men in pink! Bounced "Idol" wannabe Anoop Desai isn't the first man in Hollywood who likes to stand out in pink. Donald Trump, Kanye West and Russell Simmons are among the gentlemen who prefer pink.
America voted, and the opinion is clear... no more men in pink! Bounced "Idol" wannabe Anoop Desai isn't the first man in Hollywood who likes to stand out in pink. Donald Trump, Kanye West and Russell Simmons are among the gentlemen who prefer pink. You decide -- which Hollywood man pulls off pink the best?
Today wraps up a busy week here in Miami. Artistry is sponsoring the Rock Fashion shows being held at the Fountainebleu Resort in Miami Beach, which has featured designers like Abi Ferrin and Richie Rich (with Russell Simmons tonight). Abi Ferrin Show @ Rock Fashion The ARTISTRY MoBE is parked out front and we've been doing a variety of activities with it. We were featured in a Wednesday NBC affiliate...
Yesterday, VIBE.com ran a story of TMZ’s report of Russell Simmons having to break off his estranged wife, Kimora Lee Simmons , $480,000 annually for child support.
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